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HIV vaccine in 10 years

LONDON: Vaccines which are at least partly effective against AIDS may be available in a decade, an expert suggested on Monday. Adrian Hill, from Oxford University, was cautiously optimistic about progress towards one of medicine's holy grails, although he suggested that the first available vaccine might only slow the progress of HIV rather than stop it. However, he believed vaccines that could properly combat TB in developing countries might be ready by 2010, with defences against malaria following shortly afterwards. BCG, the present jab against TB in this country, is only used for high-risk groups. Professor Hill's team is carrying out trials of a malaria vaccine in Kenya, while tests of the TB vaccine are under way in Africa. Prof. Hill outlined the developments at the Health Protection Agency's conference at Warwick University. New ways of developing vaccines are encouraging scientists. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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